By: BreeAnn Crofts The past couple of months have been busy for the Food Tech Club at UC Davis. In April, the Food Tech Club officers from 2012-2013 handed over the reins to a new cabinet of officers for 2013-2014. The new president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer are BreeAnn Crofts, Angelica Ruark, Winnie… [Read more…]
May 14, 2013
By: Lisa Rosenberg April is usually a time to begin wrapping up the semester as students begin preparing for graduation, summer, and new futures. For us, it meant a crazy busy month of club activities and events before the semester came to an end. The first weekend of April, 21 students traveled up to… [Read more…]
May 9, 2013
By: Bethany Richardson You might be thinking, “what an odd title for an article,” but it comes from a comment fellow author Thomas Siebertz left on my ”Show us your OFG!” post. The answer? A sniff port that is used as part of gas chromatography-olfactometry (GC-O). I work in Dr. Cadwallader’s flavor… [Read more…]
May 7, 2013
By: Karen Thang Thanks to the Chapman University FSNSA Club, students had the opportunity to take a strawberry tour at Tanaka Farms. The farm is located in Irvine, CA and it offers various tours, including strawberry, cookout, watermelon, and pumpkin patch tours. The first strawberry tour started back in 1998 because the people… [Read more…]
April 30, 2013
By: Thomas Siebertz I received my copy of Poisoned on Friday and was finished with the 300-page novel by Sunday night. I just could not put it down. The book, which reads like a movie, tells the story of the 1992 Jack-in-the-Box E. Coli outbreak that left 4 dead and hundreds of others sick. It’s… [Read more…]
April 26, 2013
Guest Post By: Jason Simas (Introduction by: Thomas Siebertz) I started following @Ipura (Jason Simas) on Twitter after seeing some really interesting articles about food safety from his feed. I was curious to know who was writing for the account. Jason was happy to talk with me about his job and how he got… [Read more…]
May 17, 2013
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